Which animals are the smartest? Are horses smarter than dogs, and are dogs smarter than cats? Are monkeys smarter than all three? Scientists have long wondered how to measure an animal's intelligence. Read the article to see why determining animal intelligence is so difficult. Use information from the article to answer the questions that follow.
Are Dogs Dumb? by Karen Hopkin
Reprinted by permission of MUSE magazine, November/December 2002, Vol. 6, No. 9, © 2002 by Karen Hopkin.
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